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Topic: Your Dream Booth
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Scott Norwood
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Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 07-29-2004 11:45 AM
This has been discussed to death, but I'll add my $.02 anyway (based on equipment that I have personally worked with):
Century C, SA, or JJ heads on R-3 or R-50 (JJ) soundheads and Century bases, with enclosed reel magazines
Peerless Magnarc, Strong Super Lume-X (small screen), or Cinemeccanica ZX-4000H (medium-large screen) lamphouses
current-model ISCO or Schneider lenses
Dolby CP-65, -200 (upgraded), -500, or -650 with SRD and cat. 700 penthouse readers
MPU-1 if 70mm
QSC amps
JBL speakers
Kelmar rewind bench
Neumade splicer
Harkness screen
(note that this is the equipment that I would enjoy running most, not what would necessarily give best picture/sound quality)
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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 07-29-2004 02:36 PM
- 2 x Philips/Norelco DP70s with three-bladed shutters, inverters for running at any speed from 16-30fps; plus magazines, firetraps and liquid-cooled gate for running nitrate.
- Kinoton reverse-scan combined SVA/Dolby digital reader. If it is possible to fit DTS and SDDS pickups without compromising the fire-resistant spoolboxes then I'd have those too, but if not, the ability to run nitrate takes priority.
- Not fussy about the lamphouse, just as long as the mirror can easily be refocused for 70mm, 35mm normal optical centre and 35mm full gate silent optical centre.
- No platter, tower or automation in sight - this is a manually run changeover show.
- Isco Ultra-Star lenses for full-gate silent (optically offset), Academy, 1-66, 1-75, 1-85, 2-00 and 'scope.
- 2 x Kinoton FP-18s for 16mm & super 16, with Kiptaron prime lenses.
- 2 x 16/35 sepmag followers.
- Xenon-lit super 8 projector of some description (this is my dream booth, so I might as well have everything!)
- Rigby motorised flatbed rewind bench.
- Tape joiners for all gauges.
- Cement joiners for 16 & 35 acetate, plus 35 nitrate.
- Ultrasonic joiner for polyester.
- U-XGA video projector with Digibeta, DVCAM, VHS and DVD players, plus a decent PC in case I ever want to show Powerpoint stuff.
- CP-200 processor, plus SR and mag preamp; plus DTS and SDDS players if the heads are fitted.
- QSC amps
- Martin Audio speakers
- Very big square screen (Harkness Perlux), with adjustable motorised masking on all four sides so that any ratio from silent to 'scope can be shown without the image looking stupidly tiny.
- Two sets of stage tabs in front of the screen, with several megawatts illuminating them while the houselights are up.
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Stephen Furley
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Posts: 3059
From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 07-29-2004 05:15 PM
I tend to agree with Leo on equiping to run almost anything. I think I would tend to go for Kinoton machines. I'd like two 35/70, and two 16'35 machines. That gives me four machines capable of running 35mm; useful for special shows, with lots of format changes. To accommodate four machines without putting some of them at horrible angles (I'm sure you know where I'm thinking of Leo) I'd want a reasonably long throw. Matte white screen, about 10-12 metres, silver to let down in front of it for 3-D, roller screen would do, if no height available to fly a frame. 2 16/35 mag follower heads, ability to interlock anything to anything. I might not bother with Super-8 as a permanent installatiion, but I'd have a couple of spare ports available for temporary installations.
Peerless Magnarcs on all four main machines, I'd quite like some sort of rackover system, so I could have xenons as well.
Dolby CP-200 with all the extras, Dolby Digital and DTS, I probably wouldn't bother with SDDS, plus mag of course.
As many video formats as possible, plus the best video projector I could find. No digiital ciinema projector yet, but space to install one later, when the technology and cost are right.
Hand and motorised rewinds, a four plate 16/35 motorised Steenbeck would be nice.
Lots of 16A and 32A 240V single phase and 415V three phase plus neutral Ceeform sockets for temporary equipment. Plenty of audio and video lines up from the stage.
Bank of slide projectors for 35mm and mediium format slides.
No nitrate in the main theatre, but I'd have a smaller one, set up for nitrate, and a few other 'fun' things, Western Universal bases I think, complete with turntables, and the original variable speed motors, I've only ever seen one that still had that, they were all supposed to have been scrapped when fixed speed motors were fitted. Kinemacolor projectors would be nice, and some priints to run on them.
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